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Course ID:

MGMT 4000. 3 hours.

Course Title:

Operations Management

CourseDescription:

Traditional management, total quality management, just-in-time and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Resource management (the integration of these philosophies) focuses on designing, planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and their relationships with other functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.

Oasis Title:

Operations Management

Duplicate Credit:

Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000H, MGMT 4000E

Prerequisite:

MGMT 3000 or MGMT 3000E or MGMT 3000H

Semester CourseOffered:

Offered every year.

Grading System:

A-F (Traditional)

Course Objectives:

Course Objectives:
To examine how a firm can develop distinctive competencies in its productive
resources in order to reverse the recent productivity trends and shifts in
the world market.
To explore how the composition of an organization's resources should change
in the future as a result of recent advances in manufacturing and office
technologies.
To provide a systematic means of observing and measuring organizational
processes.
To develop an understanding of the different methods used to plan, schedule,
and maintain the resources necessary to meet demand for goods and services
in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term.
To determine the mix of work-force skills, technology, and design of facility
is best suited to achieve goals such as high quality, volume and product-mix
flexibility, quick customer response times, and low cost.

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge.